Hi guys, I have a Storyline project that I would like to be able to edit in Powerpoint - is there a way that is possible? I know going Powerpoint to Storyline is fine, but what about the other way? I have tried copying and pasting slides, tried copying all elements on a slide and pasting... but no luck! Really need help PLEASE!

I think it is a true shame that you can't copy storyline objects into PPT.

I've also come across a situation where it would be helpful to export to PPT, so I wanted to add my support for this idea.

Hey Tanya, you mentioned earlier that you need to provide a storyboard for a client - have you tried the Publish to Word option for that? This would give them a screenshot of each slide - perhaps that would suit your needs?

I've been asked to turn my Storyline course back into a PowerPoint so that SMEs can use it for an in-person presentation. Just in case anyone else runs into this, I see two options: 1. As noted above - Export to Word as a storyboard, then cut and paste each screenshot and Notes narration to a PowerPoint slide. I recommend publishing with "large" screenshots if you do this. Obviously, the screenshots can't be edited (unless you want to Photoshop) - but new PowerPoint text boxes, etc. could be superimposed. 2. If the PowerPoint needs to be more exact, I toyed with - but did not try - a second idea. Run the published Storyline course and capture it using Captivate. Now you'll have all of your Background.png files in Captivate, and you could go through a similar process of inserting them into PowerPoint with accompanying narration from your Notes sections. It would be a lot of extra work, though, and of course you'd still be limited as to what you could edit on those screenshots.

Mmmm, I sincerely disagree with that solution Bruce. If you've properly designed a self-paced elearning course, it is not appropriate for presenting in person. (The whole point of good design being that it is appropriate to the context and audience). Interactivity and other things that should be in such a course can cause confusion at worst or fall flat at best in a classroom setting. Not to mention that asking a SME to "present well" because we aren't able to make it easier for them is not the best way to serve a client or client business line! I still think that my solution of publishing a storyboard and pasting screenshots and narration back into a PowerPoint is the best we can do at this point in time. It's not really that time-consuming, either.

Export to Powerpoint from Storyline | Articulate

166 Replies

BobJones
Community Member
12 years ago
IMHO, PPT & Storyline are like two GM cars. They are both Vettes. Storyline is a Corvette. PPT is a Chevette (remember those?).
RogerBlanchard
Community Member
12 years ago

Storyline is far better a platform for sure. But It would be nice if there was a way to export a PPT file because I work in a bilingual company and everything needs to be translated. Our translators do not have Storyline and when you start to design a more sophisticated non linier courses. it becomes a nightmare for our translators to fallow in the exported Word doc that I have to now send them...even with an attached web version of the course so they can see the context in which its created.

The only solution I can see right now would to be to get our translators a copy of storyline and train them which I cant see happening... there is just too many of them to be cost effective.
TimothySmith
Community Member
12 years ago

For my 2 cents I would just prefer that Articulate Storyline output functions properly from a local drive. Currently the .exe version either ignores the keyboard or performs random actions when a key is pressed. The html versions are very limited when launched from a Windows 7 environment locally - and not supported.

From my perspective Storyline has a significant disadvantge in support of online/offline presentation vs. Captivate.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
12 years ago

Hi Timothy,

I just sent you the instructions privately on how to share your file with me, so I'll look into your keyboard navigation. It's also important to note that when requiring users to press a specific key or combination of keys in your Storyline content, be sure to thoroughly test your published output to ensure it works as you expect. Some keystrokes are common keyboard shortcuts in web browsers (F1, ALT+D, CTRL+T, etc) and may result in unexpected behavior.

The parent application—your web browser—will always receive the keystrokes. This behavior cannot be changed. If a conflict occurs, it's recommended that you adjust the design or requirements of your content to avoid the conflicting keystroke(s).
- jeanneklimowski
  Community Member
  10 years ago
  Hello everyone,
  
  I have a storyline presentation that we intend to use like powerpoint with a wireless presenter. I added a trigger to move to the next slide when the page down key is pressed (at the slide level as we are not using masters). When I publish it to web and run it on two different notebooks (one windows 7 , one windows 8.1), it doesn't recognize the page down key ON EITHER computer, either hitting the page down key itself, or trying it with the wireless presenter (the very common Logitech r400).
  
  Has anyone else experienced this??? Tech support is not being helpful here and this is putting us in a bad spot with an upcoming workshop scheduled next week. It seems like I must have a bad setting in here if others are using this as a PPT replacement without issues.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Jeanne
KerrySauer
Community Member
12 years ago
Another reason to export to PPT is for users with java script disabled (for some obscure reason people do this). As it is, at our institution, we have to be able to offer material to people in an alternate form and PPT would be the logical form.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
12 years ago

Hi Kerry,

If you'd like to see future support for exporting a course to powerpoint from Storyline, please share your thought here as well in the form of a feature request.
KenHirsohn
Community Member
12 years ago
I just posted a feature request to support a simple export to Powerpoint. The reality is that someone is going to come and say "I love your eLearning; give me your slides which I will use to train our top customer face-to-face." I wouldn't need animations or anything advanced; just give me the slides.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
12 years ago

Hi Ken,

Thanks for sending along the feature request and welcome to the Heroes community!
LynnFlink
Community Member
12 years ago
I just posted the feature request as well. We've had the same situations where people have requested the Storyline content in PowerPoint and the suggested workarounds won't work.
MaryMcGivern1
Community Member
11 years ago

OK, so this may be a different approach...

I am required to submit storyboards for every course I build. I do this first in PowerPoint. Once the storyboard is approved, I import into Storyline and proceed to add all the interactivity.

Now, if some asks for a PowerPoint of my E-learning, I give them my storyboard (or a doctored storyboard).